Thursday, May 16, 2013

Haruki Murakami, on characters / HM, sobre los personajes

When
I make up the characters in my books, I like to observe the real people in my
life. I don’t like to talk much; I like to listen to other people’s stories. I
don’t decide what kind of people they are; I just try to think about what they
feel, where they are going. I gather some factors from him, some factors from
her. I don’t know if this is “realistic” or “unrealistic,” but for me, my
characters are more real than real people. In those six or seven months that
I’m writing, those people are inside me. It’s a kind of cosmos.

Please
think about it this way: I have a twin brother. And when I was two years old,
one of us—the other one—was kidnapped. He was brought to a faraway place and we
haven’t seen each other since. I think my protagonist is him. A part of myself,
but not me, and we haven’t seen each other for a long time. It’s a kind of
alternative form of myself. In terms of DNA, we are the same, but our
environment has been different. So our way of thinking would be different.
Every time I write a book I put my feet in different shoes. Because sometimes I
am tired of being myself. This way I can escape. It’s a fantasy. If you can’t
have a fantasy, what’s the point of writing a book?

From an interview with John Wray. You can find the full interview here.

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